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054 - The Capitalocene, with Bob Neubauer, Part 2

General Intellect Unit

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The Deliberate Process of Cultivating an Environment for Capital Accumulation

The expulsion of people from the circle of humanity is not an accident, it's deliberate. This is an active process of cultivating an environment for capital accumulation to continue. I find it difficult to accept any concept that reduces the web of life to a substrate. Its project seeks to reduce nature to mathematical abstraction. Life in the capitalist era rebels against these reductions in simplifications. Weeds evolve, horses refuse to work, viruses mutate,. extra human natures actively refuse their designation as nature.

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